Strange problem - label text quality degrades when scrolling through records on form!

[David Anderson]

I have just hit a very strange problem with a form in an Access 2003
application. The 14 point text in some of my labels significantly degrades
in quality as soon as you spin the mousewheel to scroll through several
records. The text seems to partially bleed into the background and loses all
edge sharpness. It's only a label problem, text boxes are not affected. I
can't recreate the problem on a simple test form. So far, it is limited to
one form only.

Has anyone seen this sort of behaviour before? Is there a known cause? Even
better, is there a solution (apart from simply changing these labels into
text boxes)? I've exported the form to another database but the problem was
still there.

David

 

[Johnny Bright]

In my experience, sometimes odd things like this happen. Have you tried
deleting the lable and control and dropping it back onto the form? You could
also, as a test, create a new form using the wizard and the same underlying
table or query. It might work.

Just a thought.

John

 

[David Anderson]

Hi Johnny,
I tried recreating one of the three misbehaving labels and it appeared to
work properly. Then I recreated the other two and all three began
misbehaving again. However, I had not removed the original failing versions
of these two labels - they were simply renamed. The strange thing is, the
original two now worked properly! The failure appeared to follow the labels
with specific names (AcceptanceThresholdLabel and QtyAcceptedLabel). If I
swap the names between the old and new versions of a given label then the
one with the original name is the one that fails. My code switches the
visibility of these labels on and off in response to certain user choices,
but there is nothing obviously unusual about my code.

The simple test form I referred to in my original post was indeed based on
the same underlying query and that worked fine. Recreating my whole form
from scratch is another possibility but this would be a lot of work. It's
actually a subform and potentially I would have to recreate the main form as
well.

Any other ideas for bypassing the internal corruption that I am assuming
exists within my form?

David